Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.
KURT VONNEGUTBeing a Humanist means trying to behave decently without expectation of rewards or punishment after you are dead.
More Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
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To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.
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There is one other book, that can teach you everything you need to know about life, it’s The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, but that’s not enough anymore.
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Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?
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Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me. The big show is inside my head, I said.
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Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, It might have been.
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True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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If your brains were dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow your hat off.
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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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The nicest veterans, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought.
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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
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